John Carpenter - Lost Themes

  On 11/4/2014 at 4:42 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 11/4/2014 at 4:26 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Love how John really doesn't give a shit about his appearance at this age.

 

 

Beautiful

  On 11/12/2014 at 10:48 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

  On 11/12/2014 at 7:44 PM, fumi said:

So you guys all ordering this have all the various soundtracks issued so far, mostly on Varase Sarabande throughout the 80s and 90s?

I'm just curious because there is a fairly substantial back catalogue of John Carpenter over the years. If I was a new to him, I would be starting there rather than this new release.

Death Waltz is systematically going thru the Carpenter discography & remastering for vinyl. I'm not sure if they're going chronologically.

Ah, I see. I wasn't aware of that. I haven't followed him or his music since the early 1990s because by then his films were frankly awful and his soundtrack stuff equally bad.

But the 1980s movies and accompanying soundtracks were amazing at the time.

Big Trouble in Little China has some good moments score-wise but after that all his scores went into 'bad ass' hick slow rock ballad territory

I'm going to openly admit that for a long time I was under the impression that Carpenter did the soundtrack for the The Thing. When I found out it was Ennio Morricone, my head nearly exploded from excitement, but I have to say I was a bit dissapointed that it WASNT John.

Still one of my favorite soundtracks of all time.

He did have involvement in some tracks though and it sure as hell sounds like a John carpenter soundtrack so in my head it qualifies as part of my JC collection

Who did In the Mouth of Madness? Probly his last great film.

  On 11/13/2014 at 8:12 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Who did In the Mouth of Madness? Probly his last great film.

He did. Music was lame. Film was atrocious. IMO.

  On 11/13/2014 at 8:29 PM, fumi said:

 

  On 11/13/2014 at 8:12 PM, Rubin Farr said:

 

Who did In the Mouth of Madness? Probly his last great film.

He did. Music was lame. Film was atrocious. IMO.

Haha! The sence of humor on this guy.

Fuck, now there's a digital edition with 6 exclusive remixes:

Night (Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley remix)

Wraith (ohGr remix)

Vortex (Silent Servant remix)

Fallen (Blanck Mass remix)

Abyss (JG Thirwell remix)

Fallen (Bill Kouligas remix)

Available via iTunes February 3rd, 2015

Gotta be the Fog,chaps,

Hell of a time trying to find this without heavy interference from K.A.B. Antonio Bay Hits...

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  On 12/15/2014 at 11:23 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Fuck, now there's a digital edition with 6 "exclusive remixes":

 

Night (Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley remix)

Wraith (ohGr remix)

Vortex (Silent Servant remix)

Fallen (Blanck Mass remix)

Abyss (JG Thirwell remix)

Fallen (Bill Kouligas remix)

 

Available via iTunes February 3rd, 2015

Available via all good torrent sites, February 3rd, 2015

fixt

  On 12/15/2014 at 11:40 PM, Schlitze said:

Gotta be the Fog,chaps,

Hell of a time trying to find this without heavy interference from K.A.B. Antonio Bay Hits...

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kind of an odd mixed bag remix lineup, but curious about it. Last time I checked out a similar remix lineup and the results for Honest John's Shangaan electro record it was shockingly inadequete

  On 12/15/2014 at 11:59 PM, jasondonervan said:

 

  On 12/15/2014 at 11:40 PM, Schlitze said:

 

Gotta be the Fog,chaps,

Hell of a time trying to find this without heavy interference from K.A.B. Antonio Bay Hits...

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Marin County, CA

Yeah Andy visited the light house while up here doing the Bay Area shows.

what was the picture? Link is broken? andy from plaid at the lighthouse in Inverness, CA?

The Fog soundtrack is ridiculously awesome, btw. Nice call Schlitze.

Andy Ceephax

I like all his films. I recently rewatched Ghosts of Mars, and it's a great one. Really underrated IMO. The score for it is amazing too, the one in the movie itself not the separate score released. The movie is drenched in atmosphere, I love the look of everything in that film. The sound fx on it are creepy and extremely awesome. It has all these small details I love.

In the mouth of madness is also great. One thing about it is, if you get into the 'mindfuck' idea, Mouth is the perfect incarnation of that idea. All of reality is uncertain, not just scientists doing brain experiments type of thing. I just like carpenters way of doing monsters and locations, and the look of things. The underlying ideas in all his movies are great I feel, and they are all different. He has covered a lot of ground conceptually.

Edit: oh and, looking forward to lost themes. A lot

This just gets better and better...

from fact mag

US label Sacred Bones will deliver Lost Themes, with the deluxe issue including an additional six remixes from a diverse array of boundary-pushing artists.

Sacred Bones have tapped Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley, ohGr (of Skinny Puppy), techno producer Silent Servant, composer JG Thirwell and PAN boss Bill Kouligas for remixes. Ben Power of Fuck Buttons has also provided a remix under his Blanck Massmoniker.

  On 12/16/2014 at 5:26 PM, coax said:

I like all his films. I recently rewatched Ghosts of Mars, and it's a great one. Really underrated IMO.

you had me at 'i like all his films' and then lost me at 'its a great one'. We're talking about the movie with Ice cube right?

He made an even worse film called The Ward which might be his swansong, I doubt he'll get many studio offers anymore. He's making a pretty good retirement just producing remakes of his 80s films. Plus he's a huge dick and a lot of people dislike him in Hollywood.

I found The Ward watchable, but he's lost his touch. I still hold The Thing in the highest regard, one of my top 5 films of all time.

  On 12/18/2014 at 8:45 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 12/16/2014 at 5:26 PM, coax said:

I like all his films. I recently rewatched Ghosts of Mars, and it's a great one. Really underrated IMO.

you had me at 'i like all his films' and then lost me at 'its a great one'. We're talking about the movie with Ice cube right?

 

Yeah that's the one. I actually didn't think much of it when I first saw it, but when I watched it just a few days ago, I really liked how the trains looked, the locations, and even the gothic monster type humans. For some reason it all clicked. Everything was so red, and nightly and hellish. I can't really explain it any other way. Also did some cool stuff with eerie sound effects and with dream like sequences. I guess it can't defended sort of in a definitely convincing manner but all else aside I really liked it. Same as the Assault on precinct 13 music that has these dry percussive brush like sounds that are filled with atmosphere and associations for some reason

Great article on how John composes, with a link to his recent NPR interview:

http://io9.com/john-carpenters-secret-to-making-terrifying-soundtracks-1676445054